It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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